I wonder if there exists a possibility to extract files from .pup archive, which contains firmware for embedded linux device. The original firmware is damaged and can't install it, so I could only try to do it manually. I'm more of a newbie, than a generic user, though I've managed to convert .pup into .pet using Slacko 5.3.1 (that .pet was just .pup gzipped over again somehow, so the problem had stayed there )

That's definitely not my case. This .pup has 768 byte prefix before gzip signature. If I cut it off with hex editor, it opens as a regular zip, but files still couldn't be extracted (7zip shows that 100Mb archive contains 8Pb - petabytes!! - file ). Wonder if device developers had messed with packet manager.

What did you do to it? Archiver never asked me for password at any circumstances.

muggins wrote:

Could be coincidental & unrelated to puppylinux.

They base their hardware on Freescale boards (I see what could be an MPC8349E-mITX modification here), which run under Wind River Linux. Don't really know if WRL use the same Puppy packages or not. Also, it could be some other distro (the only distinguishable features for me are uncompressed vmlinux and Busybox shell). Sorry

Updates are released in one of two formats: either a complete firmware file (.wim) which overwrites the entire system, or a smaller update file (.pup) which is installed on top of a previous full image.

Peazip chooses decompression algorithm by file extension, not contents. If chosen algorithm fails, peazip thinks it's because of encryption (oh, really?). I've created random .txt, renamed it to .pup, then received the very same request for password from peazip

By the way, thanks for the link. I've not yet searched for .wim images, though they probably are not available in the field.

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